Tweet

Our only tweet from Kent, in the form of a singing, not to say a tweeting, tree, near the Marlowe Theatre. A tree which was alive with unseen but singing birds. I thought perhaps sparrows, mindful of the last time I had seen such a thing, forty years ago in a rather shabby area round the back of Finsbury Park railway station. There, some of the birds came out to be inspected and were definitely sparrows.

Note also the bit of high Victorian art. Maybe a bit tacky, but, as far as I am concerned, much better than the sort of stuff that gets put up in London these days, not least because of its modest dimensions - although I do wonder what the local residents would have made of it at the time it was put up. Was there an undercurrent of dissenting opinion (in the ecclesiastical sense of the word) which did not care for such stuff?

PS: as it happens, on another day, at around 2200, we passed a pub in the same street, quite busy, with a party of young people sitting with their backs to a large front window. One of the young ladies, for some reason that was not apparent, was stripped down to her bra and pants. Rather pretty she was too - so perhaps it is all a long established custom of the town.

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